Roundup Thursday for the Week of 6/29/08
Posted by rebecca
Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week:
One star link:
- Hacker News started a thread asking why hackers hate SEO. Most of the answers are frustrating, though some folks chime in to defend our industry.
Three star links:
Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Hacker News Algorithms Exposed!
Posted by Danny Dover
Cracking Google's 1,000 Page Barrier
Posted by Dr. Pete
One of the frustrations of doing SEO for large websites is the fact that Google makes it very difficult to see more than a small part of the search index. Even in Webmaster Tools, Google's index search is built on the same mechanics as its web search, which only lets you see the first 1,000 pages of any result. Whether you're trying to get pages discovered, struggling with duplicate content, confirming robots.txt changes, or doing advanced index sculpting, that 1,000-page barrier can be extremely limiting when you're dealing with a site with 10,000 or more indexed pages.
So, how can we dig deeper into the index and really see the big picture?
The Tools – Site: and Inurl:
An Initial Review of Boudica, the Social News Site for Women
Posted by rebecca
Capitalising On The Ultimate Form Of Duplicate Content
Posted by Jane Copland
White Hat Cloaking: It Exists. It's Permitted. It's Useful.
Posted by randfish
A quote from Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index. Google's Guidelines on Cloaking:
Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index.
There are two critical pieces in that sentence - "may" and "user agent." Now, it's true that f you cloak in the wrong ways, with the wrong intent, Google (and the other search engines) "may" remove you from their index. But, in many cases, it's the right thing to do, both from a user experience perspective and from an engine's.
Margae vs. Clear Link: The Dangers of Doing SEO By Commission and Not Having Good Contract Discipline
Posted by Sarah Bird, Esquire
Tips For Understanding Data: Regression Analysis
Posted by Nick Gerner
Small Business Link Building: Part A - Analysing Opportunities
Posted by rishil
I promised in my last post that I would disclose a link building strategy that small businesses have access to but tend to over look. Note that most small businesses may not need hordes of links to target the niche keywords that we identified via our Keyword Discovery Process.
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